The Best American Food Writing 2021 Quotes

“He walks along a row of heavy, two-foot-long Candy Roaster winter squashes that, when sliced, reveal delicate pink-orange flesh. Elsewhere, ears of Bloody Butcher corn as red as a mountain sunset grow alongside Cherokee White Eagle Corn, which contrast, in turn, with licorice-colored Black Nebula carrots.”
― Gabrielle Hamilton, The Best American Food Writing 2021: Essays on Restaurants, Culture, and the Uniting Power of Food

“Swallows and peonies heralded spring, a time for filled spring pancakes, fresh spring onions, and lavish spring feasts where the adults drank wine and extemporized verses of poetry. The hot days of summer brought crisp, fragrant melons cooled in well water and refreshing pickles made of tiny cucumbers and tinier ears of corn. With fall came sweet crabs, steamed and served with dark rice vinegar and ginger, eaten in the preferred Chinese method: with great abandon.”
― Gabrielle Hamilton, The Best American Food Writing 2021: Essays on Restaurants, Culture, and the Uniting Power of Food